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This 3-page paper discusses how maritime terrorism might be carried out, and the vulnerabilities of U.S. ports. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: AS43_MTmariterr.rtf
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U.S. government undergoing the usual kneejerk reaction to "do something" so that this doesnt happen again. And, once again, the focus is on air travel rather than other potential terrorist
threats, such as maritime ports. Even with all of the focus on air transportation, the U.S. maritime ports are still vulnerable to the ravages of a terrorist attack, especially if
those attacks are coordinated to take place at different ports, at the same time. In 2008, authors Renaurt and Egli pointed
out that maritime is especially vulnerable to potential terrorism attacks because, for one thing, international trade and Americas economy depends on maritime commerce - on a global basis, maritime trade
makes up more than 75% of all international trade (Renaurt and Egli, 2008). Furthermore, the authors point out that 95% of the U.S. commercial trade is conducted via maritime methods,
which further translates into more than 8,000 vessels making more than 50,000 U.S. port visits in a given year (Renaurt and Egli, 2008). Furthermore, the authors point out, tracking all
of the vessels, cargo and people, not to mention understanding the associated infrastructure, is both difficult and time-intensive (Renaurt and Egli, 2008). Its very easy for almost anyone to slip
in, plant something, and then slip out again, and no one would be the wiser among those containers. Though the Customs Trade
Partnership Against Terrorism, also known as C-TPAT, is a public/private partnership developed to try to focus on potential terrorism attacks and the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction across borders,
there are things even C-TPAT cant seem to guard against. For one thing, few cargo containers are being inspected by Customs and Border Protection because of a lack of funding
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